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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Mohamed Diab, director of Clash from the Un Certain Regard section of the 69th Cannes Film Festival.

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The opening film of the Un Certain Regard section of the 69th Cannes Film Festival, Clash, is a film is set two years after the Egyptian revolution and manages to portray impartially every political vision of modern Egypt.

Mohamed Diab is known for his directorial debut film Cairo 678, which was released a month before the Egyptian revolution, a drama about three women who unite to fight against the plague of male chauvinism in Cairo. As the director says in the interview, the situation in Egypt hasn’t changed and he hopes that films like this will open people’s eyes and minds.

CLASH: Cairo, summer of 2013 – two years after the Egyptian revolution. In the wake of the ouster of Islamist president Morsi, a police truck full of detained demonstrators of divergent political and religious backgrounds roams through violent protests. Can the detainees overcome their differences to stand a chance of survival?

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Dave Johns, actor in Ken Loach’s film I, Daniel Blake from the 69th Cannes Film Festival

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Dave Johns plays the role of the protagonist in I, Daniel Blake, the new film by Ken Loach, in competition at the 69th Cannes Film Festival. Dave is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor. I, Daniel Blake marks his debut on a feature film. As per usual, Ken Loach didn’t give his actors the script of the film ahead of time, so Dave Johns told us about how he prepared for his role and about how he auditioned for the part.

I, DANIEL BLAKE: Daniel Blake, 59, has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, after a heart attack and nearly falling from a scaffold, he needs help from the State for the first time in his life. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain

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PODCAST | Francesco Belais interviews Tor Iben, director of the film Where Are You Going, Habibi? from the 31st Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

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Coming out in a very conservative Turkish family based in Berlin and the impossible love with a handsome straight guy. This is the story of Ibrahim, the main carachter in the new Tor Iben‘s film, which screened at the 31st Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

WHERE ARE YOU GOING, HABIBI (Wo willst du hin, Habibi?): Ibrahim, called Ibo, is a good guy born into a Turkish family in Berlin and he has just finished a degree in architecture. Since he is gay, he has troubles talking about his sexual identity at home, where a strong traditional mentality rules. The only person who is helping him in the process of self-affirmation is his intellectual, open-minded uncle. When Ibo meets handsome blonde muscly wrestler Ali who, in his spare time, is a thief, a sincere and complicit relationship begins. In spite of his much vaunted heterosexuality, Ali seems to be interested in Ibo’s attentions.

A Berlin “ballad” filled with grace and a sweet virility, which go hand in hand with a cosmopolitan, breezy, multicultural city. In the finale, bulletten, the typical Berlin meatballs, play an important role. This is the second film for director Tor Iben, who debuted at the 2011 TGLFF with Cibrâil.

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PODCAST | Francesco Belais interviews Wieland Speck, who was one of the members of the feature film competition jury at the 31st Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

German film director Wieland Speck was in the jury of the feature film competition of the 31st Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. We caught up with him for a chat on his experience and more.

Wieland Speck (1951) studied German Literature, Drama and Ethnology at the Freie Universität in Berlin and cinema at the San Francisco Art Institute. At the same time, he has also been artistic director of the Tali-Kino, an independent arthouse cinema, and directed and produced feature films, documentaries and tv series. In 1982, he was appointed assistant to Manfred Salzgeber, who was responsible for the Berlinale Panorama section. In this role, in 1987 he founded the Teddy Award, the most important European showcase for the LGBTQ cinema worldwide. In 1992, he was appointed director of the Panorama section.

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PODCAST | Francesco Belais interviews director William Fairman and health operator David Stuart, directors of Chemsex from the 31st Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

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William Fairman, the director, and David Stuart a health operator, talking about Chemsex, which screened at the 31st Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. A cruel and sobering documentary on the dangerous phenomenon of chemical drugs and sex in the London gay community.

CHEMSEX: The term “chemsex” refers to the combination of sex and drugs, often synthetic drugs, used as a way to remove inhibitions and enhance libido, usually in the context of group sex and S/M sessions, which can last for days. This practice has spread through the British gay community, mostly in London, where it has become a real emergency. The main risks of the chemsex phenomenon are virus transmission, not least HIV, and the spread of dangerous addictions with a destructive impact on the body and the psyche. Sixteen stories, sixteen confessions made by sixteen people of all ages, especially 40- year-olds, who are the victims of a practice that has become the cause of extreme distress, isolation and illness.

Chemsex is a shocking documentary, co-produced by the English production company Peccarillo Pictures and “Vice” media, which sheds light on the dangerous risks and consequences of a practice too often considered only a marginal activity.

Chemsex from Peccadillo Pictures on Vimeo.

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PODCAST | Producer Emanuele Nespeca, one of the participants at the 2016 EFP Producers on the Move, talks about Italian production company Solaria Film.

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FRED Film Radio is media partner of the Producers on the Move networking platform which will take place at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. We asked the 20 producers that have been invited to participate to introduce themselves to our airwaves, tell us about their work, their company and some of the projects from their past, present and future. Here is one of them: Emanuele Nespeca, producer at Solaria Film.

EMANUELE NESPECA entered the film industry in 2005, producing such films as Daneile Gaglianone’s Pietro. In 2012, he became a partner with Mario Mazzarotto in Movimento film and produced Alicia Scherson’s The Future and Adriano Valerio’s 2015 Venice title Banat the Journey. In 2013, Emanuele founded his own company Solaria film and is currently preparing new films by co-directors Marco De Angelis and Antonio Di Trapani (White Flowers) and Samuele Rossi (Glassboy) as European co-productions.

http://www.movimentofilm.it/  / Solaria Film www.solariafilm.it

20 of the most energetic, emerging producers from across Europe are selected to participate in the networking platform PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE at the Cannes International Film Festival. EFP has set a high standard for participation and creates a tightly focused working environment involving project pitchings, 1:1 meetings as well as extensive promotion of the producers via profiles in the international trade papers. The aim of this initiative is to assist European producers in finding partners for their upcoming projects, to strengthen industry networking opportunities and to offer a platform where the producer’s potential is recognised.

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PODCAST | Francesco Belais interviews Neil Armfield, director of Holding the Man, awarded with a special mention at the 31st Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

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Aids, coming out, difficulties with parents: Holding The Man is a modern drama based on a true story. The film was awarded with a special mention at the 31st edition of the Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. We caught up with its director Neil Armfield to talk about it.

HOLDING THE MAN: In 1976, Timothy Conigrave fell in love with the captain of the football team, John Caleo. So began a relationship that was to last for 15 years, a love affair that weathered disapproval, separation and, ultimately death.

With honesty and insight, Holding the Man explores the highs and lows of their life partnership: the intimacy, constraints, temptations, and the strength of heart both men had to find when they tested positive for HIV. The story opens at Kostka, Xavier’s junior [preparatory] school in Melbourne. Here, the author begins to sexually experiment with other boys, and comes to the realisation that he is gay. Several years later, on his first day at Xavier College (the Jesuit senior school), Conigrave sees John Caleo for the first time.

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PODCAST | Producer Joël Jent, one of the participants of the 2016 EFP Producers on the Move, talks about his Swiss production company Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion

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FRED Film Radio is media partner of the Producers on the Move networking platform which will take place at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. We asked the 20 producers that have been invited to participate to introduce themselves to our airwaves, tell us about their work, their company and some of the projects from their past, present and future. Here is one of them: Joël Jent, from Switzerland, representing the production company Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion (pronounced “Joint Venture.”)

Starting 2003, Joël Jent has produced several documentary and short film projects, including films under his own direction. Since April 2011 he works as a producer at Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion – one of Switzerlands leading independent production companies. He appreciates arthouse cinema and is a binge-watching enthusiast and pursues his dream of producing an international drama series in the near future.

Joel Jent is Switzerland’s Producer on the Move. He produced Iraqi Odyssey by Samir – Switzerland’s contribution to the Academy Awards 2016. Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion produces documentary and feature films on cultural, political and social issues, with special focus on cross-cultural encounters and new visual approaches.

20 of the most energetic, emerging producers from across Europe are selected to participate in the networking platform PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE at the Cannes International Film Festival. EFP has set a high standard for participation and creates a tightly focused working environment involving project pitchings, 1:1 meetings as well as extensive promotion of the producers via profiles in the international trade papers. The aim of this initiative is to assist European producers in finding partners for their upcoming projects, to strengthen industry networking opportunities and to offer a platform where the producer’s potential is recognised.

IRAQI ODYSSEY – Trailer (English) from Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion on Vimeo.

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PODCAST | Producer Bostjan Ikovic, one of the participants of the 2016 EFP Producers on the Move, talks about his Slovenian production company Arsmedia

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FRED Film Radio is media partner of the Producers on the Move networking platform which will take place at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. We asked the 20 producers that have been invited to participate to introduce themselves to our airwaves, tell us about their work, their company and some of the projects from their past, present and future. Here is one of them: Bostjan Ikovic, from Slovenia, representing the production company Arsmedia.

After studying Economics in Slovenia and Austria, BOSTJAN IKOVIC began working on the production of TV series, feature films and documentaries at the established Slovenian production house Arsmedia. He has worked with such directors as Marko Nabersnik (Shanghai Gypsy), Goran Vojnovic (Chefurs Raus) and Olmo Omerzu (Family Film) and is now developing a new project by Vojnovic – Once Were Human – as a co-production between Slovenia and Italy.

20 of the most energetic, emerging producers from across Europe are selected to participate in the networking platform PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE at the Cannes International Film Festival. EFP has set a high standard for participation and creates a tightly focused working environment involving project pitchings, 1:1 meetings as well as extensive promotion of the producers via profiles in the international trade papers. The aim of this initiative is to assist European producers in finding partners for their upcoming projects, to strengthen industry networking opportunities and to offer a platform where the producer’s potential is recognised.

 Click here to listen to Bostjan Ikovic’s clip in SLOVENIAN – FRED Slovenian Channel

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